Comments on: Morning Bell: Redistribution Does Not Create Growth

By: gunsunbible Missouri

gunsunbible Missouri — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:03:31 +0000

The trolls on this blog cannot see the trees for the forest. Why do we need any taxes at all? Just to fund government spending? On bull#$%^ that benefits few? Put the power back into the states. The California, New Yorks that cannot manage money, let them file chapter 11 like any business. Government could not manage a Taco Bell, that would take some brains, which nobody has in Washington. Obama is right about one thing, I will cling to my guns and my bible. I will keep my guns, my bible and my money. You who voted for Obama can keep the change.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:51:35 +0000

The HF is increasing looking sillier and sillier.
Let me guess the answer is deregulation and lower taxes on the top 1%.
The conservative revolution started by Barry Goldwater and brought into reality by Pres. Reagan is effectively over. The financial crisis so completely mishandled by the “free market” is the final blow. The lastest generation of conservatives in power degraded the movement into mostly poltical racketeers (e.g. Delay) or the neocon fools who led the country into the morass of Iraq. Bush was in NYC standing on another rubble pile (this time a fallen ideology knocked down by greed) declaring the need to deregulate more. I just hope to be able to retire someday.

By: Phil Featheringill, Quincy, Illinois

Phil Featheringill, Quincy, Illinois — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:14:35 +0000

Government involvement in anything is always a mess and income redistribution will be the same. I don’t need Reid or Pelosi or Obama to tell me how or where I spend my money, which I earned not the government. Can anyone name ONE liberal government program that has ever worked? As has been said many times, Government is not the solution, government is the problem. I believe there were two kinds of people who voted for Obama, the stupid people who bought into his bogus nonsense and those that want to get onto the Obama gravy train and take money from those that earned it and put it their pockets.

By: Ireland, Alabama

Ireland, Alabama — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:11:48 +0000

In researching socialist country a pattern has emerged that I think is significant. Their leaders believe in spreading the wealth but seem to have a hard time letting go of the cash and handing it to those persons they based their political rhetoric on.

Time after time, while the poor live without food, drinking water, Medical supplies, no electricity and where most live with malnutrition. There leaders live an opulent lifestyle running water, nutritious food, with heat and electricity and seem to relish their citizen remain in the dark literally and politically. They used the funds for their own personal use and treat it more like an open piggy bank as funds go in but don’t come out. They clearly don’t want their public to learn the truth or compare how they live with how there leaders live. Keeping them uneducated from the facts allows them to remain in office.

When some do discover the facts and become critical of their leaders and try to change the outcome for the public they are arrested and jailed, and many are killed for trying to educate the public on the lopsided balance of power and fortune. Year after year the pattern shows massive human rights or civil rights violates runs throughout most socialist countries, as they count on the ignorance and gullibility of those who voted them into power. But there is a reason why most of these countries are run by dictators and that is never good for those who have to live in it. They believe once in power always in power and once they get there they’ll never leave or eventually they leave in a pine box where the mourners don’t realize how they were fooled by a conniving political tyrant who made them believe this was the best and only way to live.

Do I believe Barack Obama will continue this pattern? No, because we unlike others have seen the other side of life and we are an educated society. But, it is possible and the signs are there as the liberals have taken control over how Americans should live by changing the values we once held so dear. Education, our judicial system, entertainment all evaded by the liberal agenda. By forcing feeding the next generation that their ideas are superior to conservative’s ideas as they mock religion, God and country principals most Americans once held dear. Obama is showing signs of silencing those who openly criticize his ideas and policies and are denying access to him, by removing them from his plane, denying the right to ask questions at a news conference as he did this week to FoxNews.

America I hope you can live with the decision you made when you made the choice of Barack Obama over John McCain and we don’t live to regret it.

The irony is as American military free the citizens of Iraq, we could be losing them here.

By: ella quinn kinston, n.c.

ella quinn kinston, n.c. — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:05:31 +0000

OBAMA SHOULD NOT BE OUR PRESIDENT. I THANK GOD FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU ALL WHO HAVE A VOICE AND WHO CAN WORK FOR US. WE ARE BEHIND YOU. I THANK GOD FOR SEAN HANNITY. OUR COUNTRY IS IN A MESS. WE WILL GET OUT OF IT. THIS SEEMS LIKE A NIGHTMARE HAVING OBAMA FOR A PRESIDENT. I DONOT LIKE IT. THE DEMOCRATS SEEM TO BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING EVIL. I WISH I COULD HELP. ELLA QUINN

By: Gilbert, Largo

Gilbert, Largo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:46:41 +0000

Indeed, long-term investments as education, R&D, infrastructures WILL help on the LONG-TERM as will learning how to save energy.
But there is a SHORT-TERM huge problem to solve and, per example FREE-TRADE will not help if the country cannot export due to outdated technology, far higher costs and payrolls.
Jobs are created in a country, mainly because of its political and financial stability, because the people to be hired have a bit more than the minimum required knowledge (education) – they per ex. know that Africa is a continent – and only then regarding taxes … which, any way are included in the selling price to the end-user, otherwise not so many US companies would be coming to Switzerland, a country no one can say taxes are low!
Finance works on the short to medium terms, while economy works on the long-term.

Reconciling both is the duty of a sound government. But this, IMO, cannot be achieved when one has to face immediate problems due to market deregulations,lobbies, golden parachutes, etc.
Saving energy is not even a complete solution: 110 V costs 4 times more than 220 V.
You cannot change this in matter of even 4 years.
It is not because the government lowers taxes that corporations will hire people but because their orders, turnover and budgets requires it and this IMPLIES to be IN the market. A market supported by the people, not by other corporations or, worse, by outdated expectations.

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By: Spiritof76, New Hampshire

Spiritof76, New Hampshire — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:36:45 +0000

Government intervention in all kinds of things never intended by our Constitution is at the root of our problems. It doesn’t matter whether it is a Republican or Democratic government – Congress and the White House buttressed by dictatorial Courts have grabbed power away from people. We now face $50TRILLION in unfunded liability. People that comment here better wake up to the fact that what we are facing is an American problem, not a Democrat created problem or a Republican created problem.
How do we get out of this mess? Stop spending money that we don’t have no matter how big the companies are. Stop printing money like it is going out of style. REDUCE government spending drastically; start paying back the debt; start cutting taxes; encourage American capitalists, technical professionals and workers to create wealth in this country. Get the government out of our backs that have stymied technical progress in energy production and manufacturing for so long. Stop looking to Bush or Obama to somehow right the economic mess largely created by the government in the first place. America is meant to be a place where individual took responsibility for his/her own happiness while the government was entrusted to provide protection. This is not a collectivist society looking for government handouts. Unfortunately, that is what we have become. Reserve the theme “I am my brother’s keeper” et.al for private lives and not made into a government justification for confiscating from productive people in the name of compassion.
We must get back to our Constitution. It is non-partisan. It may already be too late!

By: Evan from Anchorage

Evan from Anchorage — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:28:06 +0000

If government spending increases unemployment and depresses GDP growth, then why was that not the case when Reagon pumped 3 trillion of national debt into the economy, and when Bush pumped 4 trillion of debt into the economy.

I think the Hertiage Foundation is working for whats best for them, not whats best for the nation. Why don’t we kiss corporate welfare good bye.

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Morning Bell: Redistribution Does Not Create Growth - Jason’s Blog — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:05:08 +0000

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